PARKER — Crews are cleaning up after a freight train derailed in east-central Kansas.
Union Pacific Railroad said in a written statement that 11 of the train’s 166 cars jumped the tracks around 5 p.m. Monday near the Linn County town of Parker. The derailed cars were carrying lumber and soda ash, which is sometimes used to treat drinking water and not considered extremely hazardous. The statement says no one was injured.
The train was headed from Nebraska to Texas, powered by six locomotives.